About Baba

Very little is known about the personal life of the Baba. He never encouraged his devotees to make queries regarding his personal matters as such kind of physical details has nothing to do with spiritual matters. Here is a collection of gatherings made from scattered recapitulations physical details has nothing to do with spiritual matter. So, whatever is presented his devotees to make queries regarding his personal matters as such kind of Very little is known about the personal life of Baba. He never encouraged Foreword of various devotees, and those people who had the privilege of a long association With Baba. 

Baba was born on February 10, 1880 in Kashmir and was by academic qualification a medical doctor. In quest of knowing the Ultimate Truth, he renounced the world and became a Sanyasi under the discipleship of Revered Gurudev Shri 1008 Swami Gyanasramaji who had his hermitage on the bank of Bhagirathi River in India. After spending a number of years at various places in India, Baba along with Shyam Chetan Baba, Mr. Evans Wentz and others, six in number left for Nepal. Of them Shyam Chetan Baba made his abode at a tiny room adjoined to Pashupati Nath temple in Kathmandu, Mr Wentz undertook a further journey to Tibet and Sikkim, and Baba traveled along the high mountain sides of Nepal and settled temporarily in Ilam, Kalinchowk, Swarga Dwari, Mushikot, Chandannath and ultimately in Khaptad. 

An ascetic who spent more than three fourth of a century travelling to various places in the high mountains, stayed for 50 years in the Khaptad valley, located at an altitude of around I 0,500 ft, bordering Doti, Bajhang, Achham and Bajura district of Nepal. Khaptad remains covered with snow, with no human habitation in nearby areas for almost 6-7 months in a year. It is for his long association with Khaptad that he came to be known as Khaptad Baba though his Sanyasi name accorded by Gurudev Gyanashramji was "Swami Sachchidananda Saraswati, later revered as Shri 1008 Brahmavit Paramhansa Yogi Sachchidananda Saraswati." 

Solitude and quiet contemplation were synonymous with his way of life and equanimity, compassion and graciousness were his regular features. Receiving blessings and experiencing bliss in his company was a common characteristic amongst the devotees and visitors.